It is in all of our best interests.

Peace is our interest.

These things are ours.

It is in our collective interest, therefore, that an early and durable solution be found.

This is our shared responsibility and our common interest.

Therefore, it is in our own national interest to uphold that wider authority.

And also because that's where, in terms of our own self interest, we finally begin to grasp our ability to respond, our responsibility to the rest of the world.

Sometimes the tailored nature of viruses works in our favor.

Already in imagination, he catches trout and all the activities of the English gentleman.

It would be in our collective interest to devote our resources and capacities, intellectual and material, in favour of that campaign.

It is thus clearly in our interest to promote reconciliation and improved prospects for economic and social development.

In that regard, we consider it to be in our common interest that Security Council reform not be prolonged.

Ending impunity must be our collective responsibility and is in our own self interest.

In this age of globalization, we should regard international cooperation as part of our national interest.

It is in the enlightened self interest of us all not to give in to the temptations of protectionism.

I would like to stress once again that it is, above all, in our national interest to honour our international obligations.

It is not something to be ruled upon by others presumably acting in our interests.

As a country and as a people, our permanent interest lies in peace and cooperation in the Balkans.

Our first instinct is to be self interested, and do this in a large part because we're afraid.

He's doing as his father wished. I guess this is what you call turning a misfortune into an advantage.

At the same time, it is in our interest to obtain from them as much important information about terrorist structures and activities as we can.

It is in our interest to direct its activities, to the maximum possible extent, towards further consolidating the principles of justice, democracy and development.

The report by the Commission for Africa entitled Our common interest 3 recommended a coherent package to make serious inroads into alleviating poverty and Africa's continued marginalization.

We may even find that that is the best resolution to make, for our own benefit and that of others.

Which in my experience means communication that manages to speak to and expand our concept of self interest.

Moreover, parts of Africa possess massive latent potential for agricultural development, which it is in our collective interest to encourage.

We in the EU believe that it is our common interest with the US to prevent radicalization and recruitment to terrorism throughout the world.

In this respect, no position should be embraced as if it were a dogma, for the status quo is not in our collective interest.

With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I would also say to him that it is not good for us to halt our progress whenever a delegation opposes something.

Our interest in surviving and reproducing is imprinted genetic in some way, as it is directly associated with fundamental survival.

For the sake of all of us, Europe must continue to speak out even more forcibly than it has in the past.

Our self interest as a small and militarily weak country made us feel the need for the protection of the world Organization, and, as a developing country, we stood to benefit from multilateral technical assistance and know how.

I urge every world leader, as well as my fellow business leaders, to embrace this opportunity to act in our own enlightened self interest and to work together in the spirit of real partnership.

I assure the Assembly that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is firmly committed to the peace process because it is in our interests and in the interests of the entire Great Lakes region.

As Secretary General Kofi Annan has repeatedly noted, in this globalized, interrelated world, it is the collective interest that is often in our best national interest.

Certainly, the most important direction for Central Asian interaction is our common interest in strengthening peace, stability and security, both in regional and global dimensions.

We tried to overcome the present day crisis in our relations, provoked against our interest and will, through dialogue either on a bilateral footing or through international mediation.

It is therefore in our collective self interest to work with our African friends through NEPAD to balance both the upside and the downside of economic globalization.

So we have it in our direct self interest, not to mention the fact that most men that I know have women and girls that we care deeply about, in our families and our friendship circles and every other way.

Admittedly, our peoples suffered enormously in those wars, and it is essentially in our national interest to bring those responsible to justice by establishing individual responsibility and thus contribute to reconciliation among peoples that used to live together, side by side, despite their differences, and setting an example for others.

The report of the United Kingdom led Commission for Africa entitled Our common interest and that of the United Nations Millennium Project (A 59 727) testify to that.

In our view, the present structures for the time being serve our common interest in ensuring adequate institutional arrangements for the follow up to the International Conference on Population and Development.

It is in the interests of us all to assist in the restoration of Afghanistan not only for the well being of the Afghan people, but also because of the contribution that a stable and developing Afghanistan will be able to make to international peace and security.

It is in our national interest to do so. But we must not hesitate to act unilaterally when there is a threat to our core interests or to those of our allies.

Friendship, altruism, compassion, service all the perennial truths that we talked about that are part of all religion and all cultures once you stop trying to see the differences, these are the things in our own self interest, because they free us from our suffering and from disease.